Sage 50 Accounts Workbook Tutorials
Features and benefits of Self Study Workbooks
- Cost effective
- You can re-do the course over and over again
- 180 day Demo CD
- You are in control of what you learn and when
- No need to take time away from the office
- Concise jargon-free instructions
- Practical Examples
We have two Sage 50 Accounts (formerly Sage Line50) workbook training courses available. Like our classroom courses these Sage 50 Accounts tutorials provide an excellent, value for money course. Both courses include a full 180-day working copy of Sage 50 Accounts and manuals.
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Workbook tutorials with official Sage certification
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Sage 50 Accounts Workbook Tutorials Stage 1
This workbook is divided into four easy to use sections designed to help you learn how to set up and run Sage 50 Accounts software as quickly and confidently as possible. The workbook come with 180 day demo data cd for use with the workbook. The 180 days are activated from the date of installation. The workbooks have been written in "bite size chunks" to enable you to start and stop your training as and when required. Each book covers a specific area within the Sage 50 Accounts program and the sequence allows you to stop at convenient places, to suit different learning rates. Each book contains exercises to help you grasp the concept of using Sage 50 Accounts, and reinforce the knowledge that you are acquiring. Included in the pack is a Practice Data CD for you to work with, so any mistakes will not affect your real company data.
Here is a brief description of the workbook topics covered:
Workbook Topics
Book 1: How to install and set up your software
- Learn the initial set up routines
- Create records for your company's Nominal Ledger, Bank, Customers and Suppliers
- Review various key settings for your accounts such as the Chart of Accounts and departmental budgets
Book 2: How to enter your opening balances
- Investigate all the decisions you need to make before you enter your start up balances
- Post opening balances for your Customers, Suppliers and Nominal Ledger into Sage 50 Accounts
Book 3: Starting to enter transactions
- Focus on the day-to-day transactions you can enter into your Nominal Ledger, your cash, bank and credit card accounts as well as your customers and suppliers
Book 4: Housekeeping, error corrections and access rights
- Learn how to keep your data clean and safe, how to secure Sage 50 Accounts and how to correct errors you may have entered in your transactions
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Sage 50 Accounts Workbook Tutorials Stage 2
Each Section contains exercises to take your knowledge further into the monthly accounting routines within Sage 50 Accounts. These routines are not something you would necessarily carry out every day, however they are an integral part of using accounting software and ones you need to learn in order to be a competent user of Sage. They come with 180 day demo data cd for use when learning the workbooks. The 180 days are activated from date of installation.
Workbook Topics
Book 1: Credit Control
- Discover all the powerful tools available in Sage 50 Accounts to help you carry out effective credit control
Book 2: Month End procedures
- Learn how to add fixed assets and how to automatically record depreciation
- Explore the use of prepayments and accruals
- Practice your bank statement reconciliation
Book 3: Reporting, VAT returns and Year End
- Produce your standard period end management reports
- Learn how to complete your VAT Return correctly and, as part of the Year End process, how to send your data to your accountant
Book 4: Management information
- Discover how to analyse transactions using departments
- Produce key reports, such as the Profit and Loss, for each department
- Familiarise yourself with additional management tools including cash flow and dashboards
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Sage 50 Accounts Workbook Tutorials Stage 3
You may have already been using our previous workbooks or, if you are already competent at using other parts of the program, simply just decided to start at Stage three. Either way, these books will allow you to complete your knowledge with regard to using the Product, Invoicing and Order Processing parts of the Sage 50 Accounts program. A 180 day demo data cd is provide for use with the workbooks. The 180 days are activated from date of installation. Please note: Sage 50 Accounts Stage 3 is only applicable to people who wish to learn features that exist in Accountant Plus and Financial Controller.
Workbook Topics
Book 1: Setting up stock and dealing with order processing
- Learn how to design and set up a stock system
- Practise creating, making up and dispatching customers' sales orders
- Practice creating and processing purchase orders for your suppliers
Book 2: Project costing and invoicing
- Find out how to track costs accurately and how much to charge customers to ensure you make a profit
- Learn how to process customer invoices and how to issue credit notes
Book 3: Bill of materials, stock pricing and period end
- Familiarise yourself with stock taking, returns and month end procedures
- Discover how to deal with priority suppliers, special pricing systems and discounts
- Find out how to enter multiple delivery addresses for customers and suppliers
Book 4: Periodic routines, quotes/proformas and foreign trader
- Learn how to recall items that regularly recur
- Learn how to run your Year End for stock
- Create proformas and quotations and convert them into invoices
- Produce prices and invoices for foreign traders and deal with exchange rate fluctuations
Learn how to
- Produce and print invoices.
- Create quotations, proformas and learn how to batch covert them into invoices.
- Create sales orders, allocate stock and post through as an invoice.
- Look at purchase orders and process them from entry to delivery.
- Process a stock takes and returns.
- Produce price and discount structures, including customer and supplier price lists and foreign currency price lists.
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Beginners Course for Sage 50 Accounts*
Here is a table of contents for the workbooks for this course:
Workbook Topics
Chapter 1 ~ Before You Start
Installation of Exercise Files
Default course folder for exercise files
Re-installing exercise files
Alternative installations for multi-user environments
Using personalised course folders
Using a diskette
Chapter 2 ~ Working with Sage Line 50
Windows versions
Different Sage Line 50 versions
Avoiding the loss of data from a ‘live’ version of Sage Line 50
Working with Sage Line 50 as a single user
Working with Sage Line 50 in a shared environment with multiple users
Working through the chapters
Course aims
Chapter 3 ~ Program Basics
Starting Sage Line 50
The ActiveSetup Wizard
Entering a password
The Tip of the Day dialog box
The main program window
Modules, windows and views
Multiple windows
Views
Toolbar buttons, tasks and links
Getting help
Exiting Sage Line 50
Summary ~ Program Basics
Chapter 4 ~ Getting Started
Restoring data for the first time
Setting the financial year
Backing up for the first time
Summary ~ Getting Started
Chapter 5 ~ Account Names & Numbers
Debit and credit
Double entry book-keeping
Viewing the accounts list
Printing the current list
Viewing and printing Nominal List report
Account ranges
Transactions and double entry
Changing account names
Control accounts
Summary ~ Account Names & Numbers
Chapter 6 ~ Bank Receipts
Entering a bank receipt
Saving a transaction
Summary ~ Bank Receipts
Chapter 7 ~ Bank Payments
Bank payments
Entering bank payments
Summary ~ Bank Payments
Chapter 8 ~ Financials
The financial state of the company
The Trial Balance report
The Profit and Loss report
The Balance Sheet
Summary ~ Financials
Chapter 9 ~ Customers
The Customers module
Entering a new customer
The Customer Record Wizard
Adding more customers
About selecting customers
Editing customer details
Changing the address details
Agreeing terms
Customer delivery addresses
Customer address lists
Summary ~ Customers
Chapter 10 ~ Suppliers
Supplier details
Editing the supplier record
Summary ~ Suppliers
Chapter 11 ~ Service Invoices
The Invoice window
Service invoices
Create a service invoice
Entering order information
Footer and payment details
Printing invoices
Updating ledgers
Viewing customer and invoice information
The Customers list
The Customer Dashboard
The Invoicing window
Re-printing the invoice
Summary ~ Service Invoices
Chapter 12 ~ Products
Products
Adding new products
The Product Record window
Non-Stock and Service items
Summary ~ Products
Chapter 13 ~ Stock Control
Stock adjustments in
Stock adjustments out
Stock returns
Product activity
Stocktaking
Re-order levels
The Product Dashboard
Summary ~ Stock Control |
Chapter 14 ~ Product Invoices
Product invoices
Sales details
Giving discounts
Order details
Footer and payment details
Adding an invoice with a customer delivery address
Adding a further invoice
Mix and match invoicing
Printing the invoices
Changing an invoice
Adding carriage charges
Updating the ledgers
Adjustments in
Summary ~ Product Invoices
Chapter 15 ~ Product Credit Notes
Product credit notes
Summary ~ Product Credit Notes
Chapter 16 ~ Reviewing your Accounts
The financial state of your company
Chapter 17 ~ Sending Statements
Customer Dashboard
Account balances
Aged debtors analysis
Statements
Summary ~ Sending Statements
Chapter 18 ~ Customer Receipts
Customer receipts
Automatic allocation of receipts
Manual allocation of receipts
Partial allocation of receipts
Giving a discount
Payments on account
Summary ~ Customer Receipts
Chapter 19 ~ Customer Activity
Customer activity
Summary ~ Customer Activity
Chapter 20 ~ Purchase Invoices
Supplier details
Batch invoices
Supplier account balances
Summary ~ Purchase Invoices
Chapter 21 ~ Supplier Payments
Payments to suppliers
Making a payment
Printing remittance advice notes
Printing cheques
Supplier activity
Summary ~ Supplier Payments
Chapter 22 ~ More about the Nominal Ledger
Journal entries
Nominal code activity
Nominal Ledger Graph
Nominal records
Summary ~ More about the Nominal Ledger
Chapter 23 ~ More about Bank Accounts
Bank transfers
Combined payments
Printing cheques via the Bank Payments window
Petty cash transactions
Summary ~ More about Bank Accounts
Chapter 24 ~ Bank Reconciliation
Bank reconciliation
Grouping bank transactions
Reconciling your bank account
Add an adjustment
Summary ~ Bank Reconciliation
Chapter 25 ~ Recurring Entries
What are recurring entries?
Adding new recurring entries
Adding a receipt
Adding journal credits and debits recurring entries
Setting up a bank transfer recurring entry
Editing an entry
A recurring entry processed weekly
Processing recurring entries
Suspending postings
Deleting recurring entries
Summary ~ Recurring Entries
Chapter 26 ~ VAT Returns
Notes on VAT returns
Producing a VAT return
Printing the VAT return
Reconciling the VAT transactions
Updating the VAT account references
Using the VAT Liability Transfer Wizard
Paying the VAT
Summary ~ VAT Returns
Chapter 27 ~ Reports & Information
Information
The Audit Trail
The Period Trial Balance report
The Profit & Loss report
The Balance Sheet report
Reports |
What to do next
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Intermediate Course for Sage 50 Accounts*
Here is a table of contents for the workbooks for this course:
Workbook Topics
Chapter 1 ~ Before You Start
Installation of Exercise Files
Default course folder for exercise files
Re-installing exercise files
Alternative installations for multi-user environments
Using personalised course folders
Using a diskette
Chapter 2 ~ Working with Sage Line 50
Microsoft® Windows versions
Different Sage Line 50 versions
Avoiding the loss of data from a ‘live’ version of Sage Line 50
Working with Sage Line 50 as a single user or in a shared environment with multiple users?
Working through the chapters
Chapter 3 ~ Getting Started
Starting Sage Line 50
The ActiveSetup Wizard
Entering a password
The Tip of the Day dialog box
Restoring data for the first time
Setting the financial year
Backing up for the first time
Summary ~ Getting Started
Chapter 4 ~ Prepayments & Accruals
What are prepayments and accruals?
Prepayments
Accruals
Setting up prepayments
Entering the original invoices
Entering prepayments
Setting up accruals
Entering accruals
Processing prepayments and accruals
Which transactions were posted?
Deleting prepayments and accruals
Summary ~ Prepayments & Accruals
Chapter 5 ~ Fixed Assets & Depreciation
What are fixed assets?
Depreciation methods
Straight line depreciation
Reducing balance depreciation
Entering a new fixed asset
Entering the original purchase invoice
Entering the asset details
Entering an existing asset
Depreciating assets
Asset valuation
Asset reports
Writing off an asset
Using the Fixed Asset Disposal Wizard
Summary ~ Fixed Assets & Depreciation
Chapter 6 ~ Delivery Addresses
Delivery addresses
Adding delivery addresses
Adding multiple company delivery addresses
Setting the invoice and order defaults for delivery addresses
Editing a customer delivery address
Deleting a customer delivery address
Summary ~ Delivery Addresses
Chapter 7 ~ Entering Purchase Orders
Purchase order processing
The Purchase Order Processing window
Entering a purchase order for product items
Save, discard, print & complete
Entering a non-product purchase order
Entering long descriptions
Changing the company delivery address
Summary ~ Entering Purchase Orders
Chapter 8 ~ Purchase Order Skeletons
What is a purchase order skeleton?
Creating a purchase order skeleton
Using a non-recurring purchase order skeleton
Summary ~ Purchase Order Skeletons
Chapter 9 ~ Processing Purchase Orders
Printing purchase orders
Putting purchase orders ‘on order’
Deliveries
Deliver - complete deliveries
GRN - Goods Received Notes
Amending deliveries
Recording a part-delivery
Completing a partly delivered order
Cancelling orders
Changes made to the accounts data
Creating purchase invoices from purchase orders
Purchase order reports
Deleting orders
Summary ~ Processing Purchase Orders
Chapter 10 ~ Product Records & Purchase Orders
Product records
Cost price and re-order quantities
Entering a purchase order
Summary ~ Product Records & Purchase Orders
Chapter 11 ~ BOMs & Product Transfers
What are BOMs?
Links & levels
Setting up and processing BOMs
Case studies
Case 1 - CDKIT
Duplicating product records
Case 2 - WINXPINSTTR
Case 3 - WINXPSPECIAL
Checking availability of components
Stock transfers
Not enough components in stock
Transfers with sub-assemblies
Cancelling stock transfers
Product reports
Summary ~ BOMs & Product Transfers
Chapter 12 ~ Product Pricing Options
Pricing options
Setting a special customer price
Setting special customer prices for MSNATKEY
Removing a special customer price
Creating customer price lists
Changing a cost price
Moving a customer from one price list to another
Deleting price lists
Price list reports
Summary ~ Product Pricing Options |
Chapter 13 ~ Entering Sales Orders
Sales order processing
The Sales Order Processing window
Sales order - product items
Adding carriage and settlement terms
Save, discard, print & complete
Multiple line sales orders, discounts, goods not in stock
Non-product sales orders
Summary ~ Entering Sales Orders
Chapter 14 ~ Recurring Sales Order Skeletons
Sales order skeletons
Creating a sales order skeleton
Editing a sales order skeleton
Processing a recurring sales order skeleton
Editing the frequency of a recurring sales order
Deleting a sales order skeleton
Summary ~ Recurring Sales Order Skeletons
Chapter 15 ~ Processing Sales Orders
About sales order processing
Printing sales orders
Allocating stock
Using the ShortFall Generator
Sales order reports
Recording despatches
Changing a sales order
Manual processing
Partly allocated orders
Cancel, hold and unallocate
Deleting orders
Summary ~ Processing Sales Orders
Chapter 16 ~ More about Sales Invoices
Checking sales invoices
Payment details
Printing invoices
Updating ledgers
Summary ~ More about Sales Invoices
Chapter 17 ~ Credit Control
Credit control basics
Chapter 18 ~ Using the Search Option
The Customers window
Using the Search option
And or Or conditions
Finishing the Expression Wizard
Saving the search definition
Opening the search file
Summary ~ Using the Search Option
Chapter 19 ~ Statements & Account Letters
Sending statements
Accounts letters
Disputed invoices
Setting up dispute reasons in the Configuration Editor
Applying the dispute details to the sales invoice
Summary ~ Statements & Account Letters
Chapter 20 ~ Customer Refunds
Entering the overpayment
Checking the customer activity
Processing the customer refund
Printing the cheque
Checking the customer balance
Summary ~ Customer Refunds
Chapter 21 ~ Late Payment Legislation
What is the late payment legislation?
Setting up your system for late payment charges
Setting up the Credit Charges control account
Setting up the interest rate
Setting the customer record for credit charges
Adding an invoice
Charging customers for late payment
Using the Credit Charges Wizard
Summary ~ Late Payment Legislation
Chapter 22 ~ Writing Off Bad Debts
Writing off bad debts
Summary ~ Writing Off Bad Debts
Chapter 23 ~ The Sage Task Manager
Opening the Sage Task Manager
Entering tasks
Marking tasks as complete
Deleting tasks
Closing the Sage Task Manager
Summary ~ The Sage Task Manager
Chapter 24 ~ Paying Bills using the Sage Task Manager
Entering bills into the Sage Task Manager
Paying bills using the Sage Task Manager
Summary ~ Paying Bills using the Sage Task Manager
Chapter 25 ~ Cash Flow Forecasting
Showing the Cash Flow window
Change the forecast period
Include and exclude sales and purchases
Add additional information
Include and exclude bank accounts
Print the cash flow forecast
View the cash flow graph |
What to do next
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Advanced Course for Sage 50 Accounts*
Here is a table of contents for the workbooks for this course:
Workbook Topics
Chapter 1 ~ Before You Start
Installation of Exercise Files
Default course folder for exercise files
Re-installing exercise files
Alternative installations for multi-user environments
Using personalised course folders
Using a diskette
Chapter 2 ~ Working with Sage Line 50
Microsoft® Windows versions
Different Sage Line 50 versions
Avoiding the loss of data from a ‘live’ version of Sage Line 50
Working with Sage Line 50 as a single user or in a shared environment with multiple users?
Working through the chapters
Using the ActiveSearch popup lists
Course aims
Chapter 3 ~ Getting Started
Starting Sage Line 50
The ActiveSetup Wizard
Entering a password
The Tip of the Day dialog box
Restoring data for the first time
Setting the financial year
Backing up for the first time
Summary ~ Getting Started
Chapter 4 ~ Importing Data
Preparing data for importing
Importing customer records
Performing the import
Checking the customer records
Summary ~ Importing Data
Chapter 5 ~ Setting up Departments
Why use departments?
Setting up departments
Summary ~ Setting up Departments
Chapter 6 ~ Setting Budgets
Budgets
Entering nominal code budget details
Advanced budgeting method
Choosing the budgeting method
Setting your budget by department
Checking the departmental budgets
Running a Variance Report
Using one year’s actuals for the next year’s budget
Summary ~ Setting Budgets
Chapter 7 ~ Setting up Discounts
Customer discounts
Discount by invoice value
Discount by product quantity
Copying an entire discount matrix
Copying part of a discount matrix
Applying a customer discount
Settlement discounts
Discounts by invoice item line
Product discount scheme descriptions
Summary ~ Setting up Discounts
Chapter 8 ~ Quotations
About quotations and converting quotations
The Convert quotes to option
Creating a product quotation
Checking the discounts that have been applied
Adding the customer quotation reference
Adding carriage and settlement terms
Entering an expiry date for the quotation
Saving and closing the quotation
Creating a service quote
Allocating a sale to a department
Adding the customer quotation reference
Printing quotations
The Invoicing window
Summary ~ Quotations
Chapter 9 ~ Converting Quotations
Winning and losing quotations
Convert/Set as Won
Lost/Set as Lost
Set as Open
Winning a quotation
Losing a quote
Retrieving a lost quotation and winning it
Marking the quotation as open and revising it
Winning the order and converting the quotation
Summary ~ Converting Quotations
Chapter 10 ~ Pro-forma Invoices
Creating a pro-forma invoice
Producing the pro-forma
Add the new customer
Adding the service details
Printing the pro-forma
Processing the payment on account
Creating the invoice
Allocating the payment on account
Summary ~ Pro-forma Invoices
Chapter 11 ~ The Euro & Other Foreign Currencies
The euro
Sage Line 50, the euro and foreign currencies
VAT and VAT codes for EU transactions
Setting up the Foreign Trader option
The Foreign Trader Setup Wizard
Setting up the currency table
Setting up currencies
Foreign currency bank accounts
Setting up your foreign bank accounts
Summary ~ The Euro & Other Foreign Currencies
Chapter 12 ~ Invoicing in Euros
Creating a sales invoice with a euro total
Adding a new EU customer
Entering the order details
Checking the tax code and department
Completing the sales order
Printing the sales invoice
Adding a euro sales invoice
Checking the tax code and department
Printing the service invoice with a Euro Total and update ledgers
Summary ~ Invoicing in Euros
Chapter 13 ~ Receiving Payments in Euros
Updating the currency table
Updating currencies
Receiving euro payments
Entering another euro cheque
How Sage Line 50 has dealt with the exchange rate variance
Summary ~ Receiving Payments in Euros
Chapter 14 ~ Paying Foreign Currency Invoices Entering supplier invoices
Setting up the supplier default currencies
Entering euro currency supplier invoices
Entering supplier invoices in currencies other than euros
Paying foreign currency invoices
Checking the supplier activity for exchange rate variance
Summary ~ Paying Foreign Currency Invoices
Chapter 15 ~ Contra Entries
What is a contra entry?
Entering the purchase invoices for the customer/supplier
Entering contra entries
Checking the supplier and customer balances
Summary ~ Contra Entries |
Chapter 16 ~ Batch Payments
Entering the supplier invoices
Entering batch purchase payments
Printing cheques
Summary ~ Batch Payments
Chapter 17 ~ Changing Posted Records
Adding incorrect payments
Checking the audit trail
Using journal reversals
File maintenance
Corrections
Editing the record
Checking the petty cash account
Account activity
Summary ~ Changing Posted Records
Chapter 18 ~ Batch Changes & Global Changes
What are batch changes?
Making a batch change to customer settlement terms
What are global changes?
Making global changes to sales prices
Using the Global Update Wizard
Checking the product sales prices
Changing specific records
Summary ~ Batch Changes & Global Changes
Chapter 19 ~ The Opening and Closing Stock Wizard
Calculating the cost of sales
Using the Opening and Closing Stock Wizard
Checking the Profit & Loss report
Summary ~ The Opening and Closing Stock Wizard
Chapter 20 ~ Analysing Budgets & Departments
Analysing the budget
Viewing the departmental budgets
Analysing department sales & expenditure
Departmental profit and loss report
Summary ~ Analysing Budgets & Departments
Chapter 21 ~ The Audit Trail
What is the audit trail?
Viewing the audit trail
Printing the audit trail report
Clearing the audit trail
Summary ~ The Audit Trail
Chapter 22 ~ Report Designer Basic Skills
About reports and layouts
Using the Report Designer
Objects that can be found on reports
Basic skills
Tooltips
Selecting objects
Customising a customer letter
Starting the Report Designer
Open an existing layout
Preview and Designer view
Saving a layout with a different filename
Tooltips and selecting objects
Displaying tooltips
Selecting objects
Deleting objects
Moving objects
Adding text and variable objects
Editing a text object
Simple formatting
Changing a layout name
Closing Report Designer
Using your new letter
Summary ~ Report Designer Basic Skills
Chapter 23 ~ Report Designer More Skills
Opening an invoice form for editing
Customising the invoice
Adding variable objects and their titles
Adding an image
Final changes
Using the customised invoice
Deleting a layout
Summary ~ Report Designer More Skills
Chapter 24 ~ The Sage Report Wizard
Creating a new report
Creating the customer telephone list report
Changing the page setup
Moving fields
Saving the telephone list report
Changing the report title
Accessing the new report
Deleting a report
Summary ~ The Sage Report Wizard
Chapter 25 ~ Project Costing
What is project costing?
Setting up project costing
Activating project costing
Setting up project statuses and cost codes
Setting up resources
Using project costing
Setting up the project record
Entering purchase invoices
Posting stock to a project
Posting non-stock items to a project - project only costs
Assigning resources
Analysing the project
Adding budgets
Analysis
Project enquiry
Raising the sales invoice
Project credits
Raising the sales invoice
Billing the customer
Completing the project
Project reports
Summary ~ Project Costing
Chapter 26 ~ Setting Passwords & Access Rights
Setting password access to Sage
Setting a company password
Testing the company password
Removing company password protection
Setting up individual password protection
Setting up users and limiting what they use in Sage
Deleting logon names
Summary ~ Setting Passwords & Access Rights |
What to do next
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Frequently Asked Questions - answered
- What is the difference between the two different types of workbooks?
Very little. The workbooks cover the same topics, they are just arranged differently.
- How are the two different types of workbooks assessed/examined?
The workbooks with official Sage Certification are assessed with an online exam. The Business Partner workbooks are assessed by regular reviews with your tutor.
- What is the difference between official certification and Sage business partner certification?
One Certificate is issued by Sage (with Sage logo), the other is issued by a Sage Business Partner (with Sage Business Partner logo). Both would impress current / future employers.
- I want official Sage certification but these workbooks do not include tutor support, will I be able to manage on my own?
You are fully supported with any technical issues such as installation and the workbooks are designed in a way that you won't need support during the course.
- What is the difference between Sage Line50 and Sage 50 Accounts?
Sage 50 Accounts is the new name for Sage Line50.